The complex interactions between environmental law in its many manifestations and international economic law, particularly trade and investment, are a major area of environmental governance. Whether it is the search for synergies between the pursuit of economic prosperity through trade and investment and environmental protection or the management of the potential conflicts among these different pursuits, the role of law and legal design is extremely important in practice. The move from a polluting and resource inefficient economic system to a green economy, characterised by its low environmental footprint, cannot be effected without major regulatory change (either regulation or deregulation), which, in turn, is having an adverse impact on the industries and utilities heavily involved in the brown economy. Understanding how international and domestic laws can govern such a transition is a key area of research of C-EENRG members.

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